Follows comedian Billy Connolly on his 1975 tour of Ireland.Follows comedian Billy Connolly on his 1975 tour of Ireland.Follows comedian Billy Connolly on his 1975 tour of Ireland.
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- TriviaOnly four 16mm prints of this film were made but hadn't been heard of since the 1980s. The negative had long disappeared after the lab went bust and the film was considered 'lost' with only one well worn VHS copy known to exist. However in 2022 a film print turned up on eBay and was bought for £50 by a film archivist and it is this print that had been digitally remastered and released onto DVD.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 25 B.C.: The Best of 25 Years of Billy Connolly (1992)
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If you've grown up in Glasgow, you'll know that Sectarianism in this city is still pretty rife - even now, but not so much as in the mid 1970s. It's not surprising, therefore, that after a successful slot on the popular BBC "Parkinson" chat show, Connolly - possibly the world's only professional Glaswegian - sets off on a three gig tour of the Emerald Isle. With the "troubles" only gaining in momentum, he goes on stage trying to bring his unique form of quirkily written folk music, earthy observational humour and jokes about his willie to audiences that react with varying degrees of... let's say "friendship". Trained as a welder on the Clyde, Connolly is no slouch when it comes to defending himself from the cowardly hecklers sniping from the darkness, and his friendly wit appears to go down well with most of his audiences, if less effectively with the rather staid collection of journalists who turn up for pre-show interviews with little knowledge or interest in the man or his story. This isn't Billy Connolly at his best, but it's certainly him at his most natural as he thinks on his feet delivering pithy tales from his childhood and career so far that works simplistically well set against a backdrop of industrial decline and rising fervour.
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